increasingly frustrated that the solution to decades of deficit spending is more taxation. >> the president doesn't believe we have a spending problem. he believes spending causes economic growth. if that were true, the economy today would be thriving. it isn't thriving. washington has to deal with its spending problem. i watched him kick the can down the road, i have had enough of it. >> a day after they dismissed the suggestion to again postpone tens of billions of dollars of mandatory spending cuts and other departments blooming under what is sequestration the defense secretary renewed his dire warnings. >> my greatest concern today is that we are putting our national security at risk by lurching from budget crisis to budget crisis. >> downgrading the entire civilian workforce and freeze pay for members of congress. >> this is a way of doing it without cutting defense system without cuing domestic and without raising taxes. >> they plan me with the joint chiefs to show how dangerous it can be. the cuts will be. lou: thank you. it is of course no accident the pentagon chose today to focus